The use of faulty nuclear fuel from the US in Ukrainian electronuclear plants is a risk, explained an expert commenting on the agreement of US Westinghouse and Ukraine's nationally owned Energoatom.

Shortly after Richard Wright's passing in 1960, Julia Wright found hidden in her father's papers the manuscript for A Father's Law, the last unfinished novel by the iconic American novelist.

Senate Republicans filibustered a bill Apr. 24 that would have helped women workers achieve pay equity. Republican presidential nominee John McCain expressed opposition to the bill but refused to show up in the Senate to cast his vote on it.

The Cuban Foreign Affairs Ministry denounced Thursday that the US government fosters counterrevolutionary provocations and media campaigns against the island.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez convened an extraordinary meeting of member nations of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) in Caracas early Wednesday morning to discuss the world food crisis and the political crisis in eastern Bolivia.

The Japanese government has made it clear that it does not agree with the Nagoya High Court ruling that Air Self-Defense Force’s airlift missions in support of U.S. forces in Iraq is unconstitutional.

During the week of April 14, 2008, charges against four more of the "Toronto 18" were stayed. Along with the three men who were previously released, the case of the "Toronto 18" has now been whittled down to the "Toronto 11."

The two Communist Parties in India, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) both derive originally from a united Communist Party of India, which was formed in the 1920s.

No region of the world was so devastated by both commercial and industrial capitalism and the imperialisms they fostered than Africa. From the 16th to the 19th century, Africa was robbed of tens of millions of its people for the slave trade.

Leading academic scholars and grassroots activists gathered at historic Howard University in Washington, DC, from April 18-20 for the national symposium “What’s Up With Venezuela: Participatory Democracy or Democracy as Usual?” The meeting provided an opportunity for 200 solidarity activists from across the United States to study the revolutionary changes sweeping through Venezuela.

The situation in Bolivia is on the table in this capital Wednesday at a special summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), called by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

The warnings are dire: "Imminent wars will break out due to worsening living conditions in poor countries," UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food Jean Ziegler said recently.

Tensions between President Correa and top officials of Ecuador’s armed forces grew in the wake of the March 1, 2008 Ecuadorian-Colombian border crisis. An Ecuadorian civilian, Franklin Aisilla, an Ecuadorian national was killed in Colombia’s aerial bombing near the border hamlet of Angostura on that day.

If the Bush invasion of Iraq was a "war for oil," it has been a war for expensive not cheap oil. The crackpot assertions of Bush administration policy planners – that war would "pay for itself" or the U.S. would take oil profits from the Iraqis as the price of their "liberation" – aside, the price of a barrel of crude oil is today at an all time high.

John McCain helped win lucrative land deals worth tens of millions of dollars for a donor who has raised more than $250,000 for McCain's presidential bid, according to a report in the New York Times, Apr. 22.

The Georgia Supreme Court on April 14, 2008, denied Troy Anthony Davis’s motion for reconsideration of its March 17, 2008, ruling. Justices ruled last month Davis should not receive a new trial based on new evidence presented in November 2007.

Although it is not easy to decipher the Vatican’s thinking on the thorny issues approached in a world where the president of the United States and his rich and developed allies have imposed a bloody war on the culture and religion of more than one billion persons in the name of the fight against terrorism, and where torture, pillage and conquest by force of hydrocarbons and raw materials reigns supreme

The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School has found that 25 percent of adult African Americans, 15 percent of adults earning below $35,000 annually, and 18 percent of seniors over 65 do not possess government-issued photo IDs necessary to vote.

Isabel Allende's first and most famous novel, The House of the Spirits, is a family saga that also conveys an atmosphere of workers' struggle against the tyranny of the Chilean landowners.

The Venezuelan government and Argentine steel company Ternium formed a joint commission in Caracas Thursday to negotiate indemnity for the nationalization of Ternium Sidor, which is controlled by the Argentine conglomerate Techint and is the largest steel company in Latin America.